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October 2002
Lighten Up
Weekly Miscellany
Tracking The Websurfer
How I Earned $10,000 Dollars A Week Through The Net
Have You Got A Permit For That Website?
IDG Have Some Good Spinmeisters!
Time For A New Look?
Lighten Up
Magazines versus The Net
Every Cloud...
Aotearoa.biz?
Government Skulduggery Steals NewZealand
TM
.biz
Click Here For Trouble
Nigerian Scammers Get Desperate
Lighten Up
Just "a Couple of Hundred Dollars"
Does Your Computer Need A WOF?
Outrageous Domain Name Price Increases?
State of The Art or Art of The State?
September 2002
Google's News, Any Good?
Lighten Up
At Last, A Cure For Spam
Is Lindows Another TLO?
Google's Goof
Irresistible Forces, Immovable Objects
More Movie Backups Online
Hot Jobs of the Future
Script-kiddie Threatens Aardvark
Pssst... Wanna Buy A Cheap "Backup"?
I'm Listening...
Why NetSafe Makes Me Yawn
Bait-a-Scammer Today
Lighten Up
Dot-com-dot-nz?
e-Government or e-Archives?
Xbox Observations
Where Is All The Cyberterrorism?
NZ's First Spam-Friendly ISP?
Is the Price of Anonymity Too High?
Lighten Up
Rural Modems (Part 1)
Microsoft's Lame Digital VCR
The Solution to CD Piracy
Oh, Please Pirate Me!
Law And Order On The Wild Wild Web
Rural Modems, Are They Any Good?
August 2002
Lighten Up
Getting Online Support All Wrong
Game On Dude!
MP3 is
Free
Cheap
Too Expensive By Far
When Good PR Goes Bad
Lighten Up
Kiwi Spammers A Growing Problem?
Arrest Porno Spammers?
Cut Any Code Lately?
Wanted, A Cure For Gullibility
A Bouquet For Telecom?
Lighten Up
A Collection Of Bits
Do You Switch Off?
A New World Order?
Lighten Up
Whatever Happened To...?
Palladium, More Precious Than Gold
So Good They Can't Give It Away?
A Monumental Stuff-Up
NZ Hi-Tech Down The Gurgler?
The Net and Porn
Here Come The Cyberghettos
July 2002
Computers, the Net, and Blackmail
What's Legal, What's Not?
Net Loses To TV On The Night
Lighten Up
Tying Up Loose Ends
Where's The "Best" News?
The Link With A $5,000 Fine Attached
NZ at War on The Web
Who's Messing With Your Email?
An Update on hVCPlus and Sky TV
Lighten Up
A Licence To Print Money
The Enigmatic Falun Gong Online
The More Things Change...
Wide-area WiFi Networks Gazumped?
Who's Sleeping With Who Here?
More on Free Sky TV
Floppy Feedback
Lighten Up
Be Careful With Wireless
Porn Sites To The Rescue?
Microsoft And VISA, a Recipe For Disaster?
Pure HTML is Dead, Long Live IE?
Media Morons
Lighten Up
Where Do You Go To My Lovely?
Is Snobbery Stifling Local Web Content?
The Xbox: Brilliance Or Blunder?
Who "owns" Your PC?
Goliath Dis-Advantage-ed
July 2002
Salon: Get Back To Basics
Who's Testing The Net-Traffic Meters?
Switch To The Net?
Jim Anderton, The Spammer's Friend
More Greens Egg and Spam
RIAA - Three Feet And Counting
Teflon Bill?
Hundreds Of DSL Users At Risk
WiFi -- Telecom's Nemesis?
More Dirty Politics on The Net
Green Eggs (on face) and Spam
End Of File
Lighten Up
Look Who Came To Dinner
More Cowboys Ride Into Town
Making A Noise On The Net
When Technology Bites Back
The ING Saga (continues)
May 2002
Lighten Up
ING Strike Again
That Tivo Idea
Oh The Hypocrisy
The VCR Alternative
More Aussie Domain Name Spammers
Look Out For Lightning
Here Comes Two-way Satellite Broadband?
Maori TV Flush, TVNZ Poverty-Stricken?
Lighten Up
The Connection Is Only Half The Story
The Ficticious Skilled Worker Shortage
AcessNZ Back From The Dead
Broadband Roulette
Why Technology-based Security Systems Don't Work
Get Votes Fa$t?
Lighten Up
The Sky "Pub Carpark" Decoder
TV News -- Objective? I don't think so
Sky TV's UHF Service Cracked
The Music Industry Screws Up, Again
Is Your Traffic Being Shaped?
Another Dot-Com Disaster
Lighten Up
Awards, Part Two
Why Is He Smiling?
Spam Can Be Fun
Where's All The Blood Coming From?
The .DOC Disaster
Flash: Security Hole Found
Maurice Is The Man, Not!
There Are No Problems On The Xtra Network
Lighten Up
Awards, Who Needs Them?
Is Online Banking Risky? You Bet!
The Case For Canning Email
April 2002
Those Fake Degrees Really Work
Who Cut Off Telecom's Phone?
Local Registrar Unwitting Party to ING Scam
Lighten Up
How Spam Could Kill Your Mailbox
Aussie Domain Name Scammers At It Again
Gates Admits Bad Programming Practices (more or less)
XTRA Double-charging For Over-Cap DSL Traffic
XTRA Discontinues JetStart
XTRA Endorses Digital Piracy?
Google Wants Your Brain
The Great Web Fraud (part 2)
ING's Day In Court
The Great Web Fraud?
Swain on DSL
Is $11,000 For A New PC Excessive?
Should Telecom Be Worried?
Of Bombs And Browsers
Email Idiocy
Lighten Up
Hailstorm In A Teacup
Here Come The Sekurity Konsultants
Do You Blog?
Skinning Cats: Method #2
Life On the Net in 2004
Please Don't Pick On Microsoft
Lighten Up
How Dumb is This?
Will Our MPs Turn To Spam?
Do You Find The Net Entertaining?
Yahoo Gets Ready To Spam You
March 2002
Google Sells Out To Spammers
Is yEnc A Dirty Word?
XTRA Helpdesk Worker Vents Steam
More e-Government Stupidit-e
A Card Reader In Every Home?
Lighten Up
Scientologists Say Linking Breaches Copyright
Rewriting The David Versus Goliath Story
The Coolest Job On The Planet?
What's New On The NZ Web?
Sky and TiVo?
A Double Tax On Net Publishers?
Spammer Hides Behind Privacy Act
Lighten Up
Could Search Engines Do Better?
E-Government, Email, E-h What?
Music Industry Turns To Racketeering
The Next Big Thing?
Domainz Report Surprises Nobody
Are We Being Locked Out?
JetStart DSL Users Get A Bonus
When The Coffee Hits The Fan
Lighten Up
We Are Half a Billion Strong
Do You Need Two ISPs?
TV3 Risks A Slap On The Wrist
Other TV Trivia
Telecom's Shocking DSL Admission
The Long Arm Of Defamation Law
Are Kiwi Net Users Too Easy-Going?
What's Going On Here (Again)?
Websites Cry Out For Cash
Lighten Up
A Flat-Rate Broadband Alternative?
February 2002
Where Are The Internet Stars?
Telecom NZ: Hype Versus Reality
Logging On? Take a Packed Lunch
Technology or Taxation?
Who's A Sore Loser Then?
Lighten Up
A Money-Making Idea For Bigger ISPs?
Bad News -- Spam Pays
The Cybersquatting Slump
Aussie Net Banking Shocker
But Some Aussies Are Smart
Judge's Shocking Sex Surfing Scandal?
Laying Down A Challenge To The Pony-tailed Latté Drinkers
Why We Love Microsoft
Where's The Competition to MS Windows?
All We Need Now Is A Plan
Linking To Trouble
Who Owns Your Online Content?
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
Google Offers Shiny Beads And Blankets
Net Ratings -- Who Cares?
Keeping Your Valuables Off The Street
Microsoft Halts New Development Work?
Lighten Up
Can Spam Go Legit?
January 2002
Talking Of Radio...
Are ISPs Doing Enough To Educate?
Who'd Want To Be An ISP?
What The Net Is Not
Lighten Up
Internet Silliness Lives On
Is XTRA Protecting Its Hackers?
Amazon Makes A Profit
Hello, Help Desk?
Where Are All The Movers And Shakers?
Tomorrow's News: The CD is Dead
Lighten Up
Bandaid Bill Is At It Again
Kids Versus TV Journalists
TV News Credibility Takes Another Hit
Why Microsoft Doesn't Build Planes
News -- The Real Story
Slipping Standards
One Of Those Days
Lighten Up
There's Still Free Stuff Out There
Is Truth A Victim Of The Net?
Broadband for 1.4 Cents Per Megabyte?
Is DVD The Answer?
Good News In 2002?
Lighten Up
An Online Music (Honesty) Box?
More Monopoly Mayhem
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